Free Technical Assistance Available to Farmers Through Newport-Fersan
By: , May 31, 2023
Photo: Yhomo Hutchinson
Minister Without Portfolio in the Office of the Minister, Hon. Robert Morgan (right), feels a handful of the granular fertiliser produced by Newport-Fersan (Jamaica) Limited (NFJ), during a tour of the company’s plant in Kingston on Tuesday (May 30). Assisting the Minister is Plant Manager, NFJ, Matthew Leon (left), while partially hidden at centre is Managing Director, Dennis Valdez.
Photo: Yhomo Hutchinson
Minister Without Portfolio in the Office of the Minister, Hon. Robert Morgan (centre), feels a handful of treated urea, a raw material used in fertilisers, during a tour of the Newport-Fersan (Jamaica) Limited (NFJ) facility in Kingston on Tuesday (May 30). Highlighting the features of the product is Managing Director, NFJ, Dennis Valdez (left), while Sales Manager, NFJ, Denton Alvaranga, looks on.
Photo: Yhomo Hutchinson
Minister Without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister, Hon. Robert Morgan (centre) looks at a bottle of Mannipex Iron Liquid Fertiliser during a tour of the manufacturing plant at Newport-Fersan (Jamaica) Limited (NFJ) in Kingston on Tuesday (May 30). With him are (from left) Sales Manager, NFJ, Denton Alvaranga and Managing Director, Dennis Valdez.
Photo: Yhomo Hutchinson
Minister Without Portfolio in the Office of the Minister, Hon. Robert Morgan (centre) looks on as Plant Manager, Newport-Fersan (Jamaica) Limited (NFJ), Mathew Leon (right) gestures to a large pile of fertiliser raw material, during a tour of the entity’s plant in Kingston on Tuesday (May 30). Looking on is Managing Director, NFJ, Dennis Valdez.The Full Story
Farmers across the country can benefit from complimentary training seminars and field appraisals by agronomists through one of Jamaica’s largest manufacturers of fertilisers, Newport-Fersan (Jamaica) Limited (NFJ).
The seminars, which are facilitated online on Wednesdays cover several areas, including the production of vegetables, roots, tubers and condiments.
Minister Without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister, Hon. Robert Morgan, commended the NFJ for providing the free technical assistance to farmers, which he noted, will boost the agricultural sector.
He was speaking during a tour of the entity’s plant at Wherry Wharf Complex, Newport East, Kingston, on Tuesday (May 30).
Minister Morgan said that farmers across the island, including those within his Clarendon North Central constituency, can benefit from the support to increase crop yields to feed their communities and the country at large.
“So, anything that we can do to help them get the intellectual resources as well as the physical resources to be better able to take care of their families [we will]… because people don’t do farming just because they love it; they do farming to make a living,” he noted.
Managing Director of Newport Fersan, Dennis Valdez, pointed out that the entity, over the years, has been working with farmers to increase production.
Farmers are also able to access fertiliser at an affordable cost that is tailored to their needs.
During COVID-19, Newport Fersan cut the price of fertiliser by about 19 per cent.
“So, what we’ve been doing before COVID for around eight years…we started our technical programme where we design, based on soil analysis, a specific product that suits the needs of a crop while reducing the cost of the input in most of the ways,” Mr. Valdez told JIS News.
He noted that farmers have realised “tremendous improvement” in their production from the use of these fertilisers.
Farmers can visit NFJ’s website or social media pages to learn more about its upcoming training sessions.